A windows tool offering efficient move-to-other-monitor functionality for dual monitor users.
As a multi-monitor configuration user for at least the last decade, I ‘ve been using mutli-monitor utilities and more specifically UltraMon for taking advantage of the overall productivity enhancement a dual monitor configuration can offer. This utility provides some very useful features like a much more functional task bar behavior, easy background setup, common tasks’ shortcuts etc.
UltraMon was since windows 2000 in my list of the programs I would install immediately after a clean installation of windows but as time was passing, windows were integrating more and more of “multi-monitor functionality” to the point that after the release of Windows 10, I came to realize that the only remaining, essential for me, UltraMon feature that windows have still not built-in is the move-to-other-monitor button, a little button added on every window that allows the user to perform this very common task with a single mouse click.
I wondered how I could get similar functionality in a different way and do away with the installation of the whole UltraMon utility, mainly because of some compatibility issues it had at the moment with Windows 10.
After little googling, I found out about windows’ keyboard shortcut for the exact task I was looking for:
Windows Key + Shift + Left/Right Arrow
shortcut moves focused window to the other monitor which means that the core of the sought functionality is already implemented in windows, therefore it is much easier to just map this key combination to a mouse-only action using Autohotkey. Double clicking of middle mouse button was chosen as it is generally not used in any way plus we get for free the “works even for not in focus windows” as the first click sets the focus on the desired window.